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Quotes About Trust

The Declaration [of Independence] is like a map. You trust that it's right but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.
~ Colson Whitehead
Love and that love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.
~ Colson Whitehead
The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.
~ Colson Whitehead
Plenty of boys had talked of the secret graveyard before, but as it had ever been with Nickel, no one believed them until someone else said it.
~ Colson Whitehead
its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. "I'm caught," Cora said. "You choose to be with him." Homer looked puzzled. He took out his notebook, turned to the last page, and scribbled.
~ Colson Whitehead
the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.
~ Colson Whitehead
The world continued to instruct: Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down. Still he heard those higher imperatives: Love and that
~ Colson Whitehead
love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.
~ Colson Whitehead
Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down.
~ Colson Whitehead
He stopped hooking up with other people once he realized the first thing he did was calculate whether or not he could outrun them.
~ Colson Whitehead
We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together." —
~ Colson Whitehead
But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.
~ Colson Whitehead
The world had whispered its rules to him for his whole life and he refused to listen, hearing instead a higher order. The world continued to instruct: Do not love for they will disappear, do not trust for you will be betrayed, do not stand up for you will be swatted down. Still he heard those higher imperatives: Love and that love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.
~ Colson Whitehead
He has to trust a stranger to do the right thing. It was impossible, like loving the one who wanted to destroy you, but that was the message of the movement: to trust in the ultimate decency that lived in every human heart.
~ Colson Whitehead
the con men never betray the game.
~ Colson Whitehead
Anyone can start a religion. They just need the need of others.
~ Colson Whitehead
Some days Carney felt the need to press his cousin on a lie until it broke and some days his love was such that the slightest quiver of mistrust made him ashamed.
~ Colson Whitehead
A man should have a safe big enough to hold his secrets. Bigger even, so you have room to grow
~ Colson Whitehead
I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.
~ Colum McCann
Are you saying I'm a liar? --No I'm just, like, speaking.
~ Colum McCann
If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.
~ Colum McCann
I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man.
~ Colum McCann
I went into my first marriage, blank to the schemes of love.
~ Colum McCann
The truth of the matter is that the light at the end of the tunnel generally belongs to the pharmaceutical companies.
~ Colum McCann